Today I fumbled thru the install of Rayfish and Yggdrasil. Both are awesome, but Rayfish was so much easier to install and use.

Have you tried these yet?

Here’s the Yggdrasil link:

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

Yggdrasil has Android, Windows, Linux, Apple installers.

Rayfish only works on desktop right now, but hopefully soon they will be able to get it on Android.

  • innocentz3r0@programming.dev
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    15 hours ago

    I suppose they don’t work without having

    • a coordination server of sorts
    • having all the nodes on static IP

    Like, if the IPs keep changing, and a device goes offline and then online, how does yggdrasil know how to reach that system?

    • altphoto@lemmy.todayOP
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      14 hours ago

      My phone gets a new IP when I hop from wifi to cell but it’s still able to communicate. Supposedly rayfish has this solved too although I cannot test that since the computer is on my network but maybe I could tether something to my cellphone and test that way.

      If you’re using ipv6 supposedly you don’t need to forward ports. So that means that regardless of what IP your ISP gives you, your network should survive.